Rickie Lee Jones

“I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.”

“I think poetry is best read to oneself.”

“In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.”

“I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.”

“I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.'”

“I want to work and be happy.”

“You never know when you're making a memory.”

“As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.”

“I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.”

“I'm respected, I'm still working, what more could I ask?”

“Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.”

“There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.”

“My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.”

“I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.'”

“I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.”

“For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.”

“I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.”

“I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.”

“When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.”

“Whatever it is Christ said doesn't get a fair shake. There's not much written, it was done 150 years later, and it was used to create an empire. So can we get rid of all that and just see what the guy said?”